We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Iron hand in a velvet glove.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Error is discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the lea...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do wh...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revie...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon tha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Worship God by reverencing the human soul as God's chosen sanctuary. Revere it in yourselves, rever...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The world is governed by opinion.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished;...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object howe...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The home is the chief school of human virtues.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING True love is the parent of humility.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The great hope of society is in individual character.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their use...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wor...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to se...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wo...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Through the vulgar error of undervaluing what is common, we are apt indeed to pass these by as of li...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when th...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The great hope of society is in individual character
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The i...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each mome...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for wha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these a...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Life has a higher end,than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when th...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up the...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, au...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the sa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It [the soul] is truly an image of the infinity of God, and no words can do justice to its grandeur.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashion...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principl...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irra...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Ask the majority of Christians what they consider the greatest evil from which Christ freed humanity...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!
ELLERY ADAMS Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
ELLERY SEDGWICK Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a publ...
ELLERY QUEEN I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,
ELLERY HANLEY He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an inst...
ELLERY QUEEN The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.
ELLERY QUEEN To be sat with greats like Billy Boston and Eric Ashton and to be mentioned in the same breath as Ha...
ELLERY HANLEY I've achieved so much in my career but this is probably the biggest honour I could have received,
ELLERY HANLEY They all know their jobs. They have to go out there and play freely.
ELLERY HANLEY Enjoy the action, don't get swallowed up by it,
ELLERY HANLEY They have done tremendously well. To be honest, it would be nice to be there.
ELLERY HANLEY But I'm sure he would recognise the players around him who help him. They propel you forward.
ELLERY HANLEY His footwork is like Chicka Ferguson,
ELLERY HANLEY There's not a notable weakness there. Obviously he's a great talent. He's tremendous.
ELLERY HANLEY He's something else, a different class, an absolutely superb athlete,
ELLERY HANLEY I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way...
STOCKARD CHANNING A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
CHANNING POLLOCK Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
CHANNING POLLOCK Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from gre...
CHANNING POLLOCK No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become...
CHANNING POLLOCK Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
CHANNING POLLOCK It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a dol...
CHANNING TATUM I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready...
CHANNING TATUM In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhe...
CHANNING TATUM I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape b...
STOCKARD CHANNING I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor,...
CHANNING TATUM I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn...
CHANNING TATUM A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run
CHANNING POLLOCK Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
STOCKARD CHANNING I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to h...
CHANNING TATUM Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
CAROL CHANNING The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to over...
CHANNING POLLOCK Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
CHANNING TATUM It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' ...
CHANNING TATUM If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn...
CHANNING TATUM It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the firs...
STOCKARD CHANNING I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.
CHANNING TATUM With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're tr...
CHANNING TATUM You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes thro...
CAROL CHANNING I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disab...
CHANNING TATUM Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
CHANNING POLLOCK The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to over...
CHANNING POLLOCK I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms r...
CHANNING POLLACK If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost ...
CAROL CHANNING The First 80 Years Are the Hardest.
CAROL CHANNING They're all voiceless about it. They're afraid to speak. And the strange thing is that while you're ...
CAROL CHANNING I'm going to teach ... at California State University,
CAROL CHANNING We were raised together in Seattle and San Francisco until Dickie was 12,
CAROL CHANNING There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
CAROL CHANNING You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through ...
CAROL CHANNING I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods. I've never missed a show so it must b...
CAROL CHANNING What the Vatican is to the Catholics, Ten Chimneys is to actors.
CAROL CHANNING I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger,...
CHANNING TATUM No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK The charges were put on a back burner as long as he agreed to stay out of trouble for six months. If...
CHANNING PHILLIPS My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering....
CHANNING TATUM One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it...
CHAD CHANNING After a careful analysis of the facts, we have concluded that there is insufficient evidence at this...
CHANNING PHILLIPS Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a n...
CHANNING TATUM I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect...
CHANNING TATUM When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING Unlike a lot of reports that are left on the shelf when they're written, we want to make the Applese...
CHANNING WICKHAM I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between ...
CHANNING TATUM I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' T...
CHANNING TATUM I really think it's something that somebody made up. Some games you're going to be in a funk.
CHANNING FRYE It's only one game, but you shouldn't disrespect us. We could win a lot of games if we stay focused....
CHANNING CROWDER I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, i...
CHANNING TATUM I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and ...
CHANNING TATUM We didn't even get through the A's [against the Broncos last week].
CHANNING CROWDER The playbook is like a phone book,
CHANNING CROWDER It took a few bad experiences, but I've managed to calm down a lot, ... I've learned how to let thin...
CHANNING CROWDER My mom is always around, ... That's important to me. But I can still tell her to leave if I need spa...
CHANNING CROWDER Our defensive playbook is like a phone book, and we didn't get through the A's, ... We have a lot th...
CHANNING CROWDER The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book. We didn't even get through the first letter of t...
CHANNING CROWDER [Not even close.] The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book, ... We didn't even get through...
CHANNING CROWDER People always expect me to be some sort of monster, ... I might be a little crazy, but I wouldn't sa...
CHANNING CROWDER I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed wit...
CHANNING TATUM I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don...
CHANNING TATUM I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be l...
STOCKARD CHANNING I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some...
CHANNING TATUM It was just a relief. I guess we've been pretty down on ourselves. I don't think we were having fun ...
CHANNING TONEY Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar
CHANNING POLLOCK Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, t...
CHANNING POLLOCK A critic is a legless man who teaches running
CHANNING POLLOCK I'm not going to walk around the stadium looking for him, but if I run into him, whatever, ... Littl...
CHANNING CROWDER Oh man, that's just kind of lofty right now, ... I got here by staying humble and working hard every...
CHANNING FRYE The way this season has gone, ... who knows who the team to beat is now?
CHANNING FRYE When we have people coming off the bench like Andre and Hassan, guys who could start for any other t...
CHANNING FRYE I can't remember the last time I was 0-3. We just want to get a win. We just have to come focus and ...
CHANNING FRYE I'd love to win about eight in a row now.
CHANNING FRYE There's a lot of things personally evolving,
CHANNING FRYE A lot of people just think I'm a stand-up shooter, but I do have some things under wraps, and I cont...
CHANNING FRYE Our defensive playbook is like a phone book, and we didn't get through the A's, ... We have a lot th...
CHANNING CROWDER Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from gre...
CHANNING POLLOCK If Coach needs me at the three or the two - heaven forbid - I'll be ready,
CHANNING FRYE I would describe his shot as kind of a corkscrew. It's kind of a screwball that has a rainbow arc. I...
CHANNING TONEY The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Mo...
CHANNING TATUM But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, w...
CHANNING TATUM I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
CAROL CHANNING Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn'...
CHANNING TATUM They are a very good team. I thought we were playing them alright. We would get on a little run and ...
CHANNING FRYE I felt like we accomplished a lot. But it's like not finishing a marathon with a mile left.
CHANNING FRYE The important thing is to use today wisely and well, and face tomorrow eagerly and cheerfully and wi...
CHANNING POLLOCK Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments
CHANNING POLLOCK I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really re...
CHANNING TATUM He's a great player to have. He was looking to penetrate and knew his shot was off. I think he was h...
CHANNING TONEY That definitely means something. The freshmen have made a lot of difference this year. They have bee...
CHANNING TONEY I had some good shots. They just weren't falling. I kept practicing and stayed with it.
CHANNING TONEY People used to make fun of my form also, but I stayed with my form, so I think it's important for hi...
CHANNING TONEY